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KPAZ ownership up in air J7? fw -z: i X. I 'A IF Eintertainment travel Sent. 26. '76 (Section Page 1) By MIKE PETRYNI Two Christian broadcasting groups are in a rather bedeviling tangle over an ownership transfer of KPAZ-TV (Channel 21), a transfer that came within one day of possi-. ble Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval.

Last November, Trinity Broadcasting of Arizona. (TBA), an. offshoot of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) of Santa Ana, agreed to purchase KPAZ from Glad Tidings Church, which has owned the station since 1971. TBA filed for a required ownership transfer from the FCC and immediately pumped $10,000 per month in time purchases into KPAZ to keep the debt-ridden station alive until FCC approval was granted, according to Paul Crouch, owner of TBN, which also runs a Christian station in California. Then on July 26, Glad Tidings Church sent a telegram to the FCC saying it was "terminating" its agreement to sell Channel 21 to TBA.

The FCC was scheduled to consider the final transfer on July 27th. ft'' tr THIS WOULD PROBABLY be business-' as-usual in the broadcasting world were it not that KPAZ has approximately $1.6 million in notes and bonds outstanding apparently with numerous small investors around the Valley who may be wondering by now which of the two broadcasting groups is the Christian and which is the lion. TBA agreed to purchase KPAZ by assuming all of the station's long term debts, which all together total nearly $2 million, according to the original application for license transfer on file at the station. Crouch said recently Glad Tidings appar- 0 ently pulled out of the original deal because the TBN's purchase of about $200,000 in pre-paid air time took "the pressure" off the station in its immediate debt situation and gave Glad Tiding "leverage" to renegotiate the ownership transfer. "THEY DON'T SEEM to realize the big wolf, the $1.6 million debt, is still at the door," Crouch said.

"Maybe I should have let all the pressure stay on so they would not have tried to break the contract." Crouch said Glad Tidings is now asking TBA to assume further debts before the transfer goes through. "Some we knew about, some we didn't," he said. Crouch said TBA may have to go to court to get Glad Tidings to adhere to the original contract but as for now both groups are still negotiating. REV. LINDEL EDMONDS, pastor of the Bible Fellowship Church (which is, essentially, Glad Tidings Church), said last week Republic photo by Jobs VomH LIMELIGHT DINNER Theater opens Wednesday at the Hotel Westward Ho featuring (from left) Pat Lentz and Lois Parker in Moss Hart's comic classic, "Light Up The Sky." WMMMTransfer available in new style ad Tidmes has been lrr "real fair" with TBA.

He said the purchase agreement was for a six-month period while TBA applied for the li cense approval from the FCC. Glad Tidings gave TBA:" -eight months be fore pulling out, he said. Edmonds said the church's understanding was that TBA would assume "all responsibil-' ities" for KPAZ debts Rev. Ed monds Pinchas Zuckerman including those since the November purchase agreement. He said TBA was to be responsible for the notes and bonds that have come due since the agreement.

Edmonds acknowledged that notes and bonds "really haven't" been paid as they come due, although he said "some of the more pressing ones may have been paid." A recent telethon on KPAZ, appealing for monetary support, Edmonds said, was to cover current expenses and keep the station on the air. Edmonds said on-going renegotiations with TBA to purchase the station may be completed this week but as of now "Trinity (TBA) is out." In the meantime, one supposes, those holding KPAZ's $1.6 million in notes and bonds are practicing patience. THE TRANSFER (from left) Laurel Masse, Tim Hauser, Alan Paul, Janis Siegel. By HARDY PRICE There's an old proverb, something to the effect "God go with you my son, but glance over your shoulder occasionally to see if anyone is catching up." The Manhattan -Transfer glanced over its collective shoulders and Tim Hauser, Janis Siegel, Alan Paul and Laurel Masse decided something was catching up, the times. The high camp nostalgia quartet of 1974 has settled into a pattern much like that of a new bride, something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.

THEY BRING that combination to Symphony Hall in an 8 p.m. performance Saturday, preceded by comic musician Martin Mull. The new sound of the Transfer (the group's name is taken from the John Dos Passos novel) is very much in evidence on the new album, Coming Out (Atlantic SD 18183). "We wanted to do an album that was more contemporary than the first," said spokesman Hauser in a telephone interview from San Francisco where the group was performing at the Fairmount. The first ablum was marked with silky renditions of vintage songs, "Blue Champagne," "Operator," "That Cat Is High" and "Java Jive." It was, "Art deco in sound," in Hauser's words.

COMING OUT, which makes up much of the new 70 minute show, was co-produced by Hauser and Richard Perry. The basic sound is there, but the tunes, well they range from Todd Rundgren's "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference," to the rock and roll classic "Don't Let Go," to the Kingston Trio's "Scotch and Soda," to a continental flavored "Chanson d'Amour" to Michael Franks' witty, "Popsicle Toes." "We wanted to do something more with the new show," said Hauser. "The old show was about 55 minutes, this one runs 70 minutes with five costume changes. It's much more theatrical, much more athletic. We do a sprinkling of the old stuff and a lot of the new." Because the show is a demanding physical grind, Hauser, the short (and Zuckerman at Gammage now bearded) male member keeps in shape with either two hours of tennis or a mile run a day.

"I don't want the show to be the most physical thing I do all day," he said. HAUSER WAS the motivating force behind the group. As the story goes, he was driving a New York taxi and one of his fares turned out to be Laurel, the sultry redhead. The two got talking about music, decided to form a duo. Janis, the brunette of the bunch, was introduced to Tim and Laurel by hollering "Taxi" one day on the streets of the city.

Alan, with the slicked down. Rudy Valentino hair, was introduced to the trio by a friend. At the time, Alan was appearing in the original company of "Grease." The sound, that delicious blend of harmony that sets the Transfer apart, came first. "WE GOT IT together," said Hauser, "but it took us five months to get it down. That's five months of six days a week, three to four hours a day of work." Then came the performing, with much critical success and an ever' growing commerical success, and a four-week television run last summer as a replacement for Cher.

Of the various stages the group has performed concert, club, hotel room, television Hauser prefers the concert stage "THE CONCERT HALL, and speaking for us all, is more preferable for us," he said. "TV is synthetic, in nightclubs we have to put up with people talking, smoking, drinking, moving around. "The concert hall is ideal because the people are there to see and hear the artist." However the concert stage demands change because of the vast audience potential. Hauser sees this as a plus. As Hauser explains: "The most modern of all musical concepts is change and we will continue to keep changing, more and more all the time and evolving.

Modern society changes faster all the time, and if you don't make the changes then someone is going to make them for you." By THOMAS GOLDTHWAITE Republic Entertainment Editor Pinchas Zuckerman, at 28, is one of the finest violinists around. He seems to have survived that critical transition from brilliant student to virtuoso class without the calamities that can befall young, ambitious talent in too great a hurry toward success. Zuckerman, who has appeared several times with the Phoenix Symphony, has mounting acclaim since his arrival in the U.S. from solid violin studies in his native Israel. And he has proved to be an amazing violist as well.

Exposure, publicity and good press, he's had all of that; and impressive recordings, too. Those are the acquired trappings. Anyone who has heard him play knows instinctively that a major phenomenon is emerging that could well mature into the present era's most distinctive artist since our great Golden Age of the 1940s. He returns to Arizona Friday in the dual role of conductor-soloist in a concert at Gammage with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The program is all-Mozart: a Divertimento in for Strings (K.

136) and a Wind Serenade (No. 12 in Minor). Zuckerman then performs as soloist in the glorious, autumn-sunny Haffner Serenade (K. 250) in eight movements. It is characteristically cheerful.

More for us in the Valley, it is Mozart's music, as welcomed in solemn, old romantic Arizona music circles as the first gusts of rain on the desert. All Gammage will go mad Friday night. THE PHOENIX SYMPHONY opens its season, officially this week with the first of four concerts at Prescott in Hendrix Audi- -torium, directed by Gerald Thatcher, associate conductor. It is a pops concert prelude to three subscription concerts in Prescott, and includes music of Grofe, Gould, Gershwin, Mancini and others. The orchestra returns Nov.

27 with Izler Solomon and ASU pianist Eugene Pridonoff, who plays the Schumann Concerto; again Jan. 22 under Thatcher for Copland's Third Symphony, and the Nutcracker Suite; and CALENDAR Ice Follies at the Coliseum, Tuesday through Saturday, 8 p.m., 6:30 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m. matinees Saturday and Sunday. "Pajama Game" Paul Shank's French Quarter, Safari Hotel, 7 p.m.

2 p.m. Saturday matinee, 7 p.nu Sunday. "Light Up The Sky" presented by Limelight Dinner Theater at Hotel Westward Ho, Wednesdays through Sundays, 7 p.m. dinner, 8:15 p.m. "West Side Story" 8 p.m.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Phoenix Little Theater. 'George Carlin Today, 7 p.m., Symphony Hall. Bruce Springsteen Today, 8 p.m., Coliseum. "Bad Habits" Two short comedies in ASU Theater Main Stage series, 8 p.m. today and Sept.

30-Oct. 3, Dixie Gammage Courtyard at ASU. "Hawkshaw" Melodrama production of Glendale Little Theater, 8 p.m. today, Valley West Mall. Lecture Moshe Dyan, former Israeli minister of defense, 8 p.m.

today, Phoenix College. Windmill Theater Tom Poston in "Plaza Suite," 6:4,0 dinner, 8:30 curtain Tuesdays through Sundays; 12:15 buffet, 2 p.m. Sunday matinees. Coming attractions By JOSEPH GELMIS Newsday Service NEW YORK Of the major movies due between now and Christmas, there are several that sound (or work out on paper to seem) interesting. Some of the reasons involve unusual teams like pitting Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman in a life-and-death struggle, or- Alan Arkin and Nicol Williamson as Sigmund Freud Meets Sherlock Holmes, or Art Carney working with Lily Tomlin.

The movies I am- looking forward to, and the reasons why, are these: "THE LAST Robert De Niro of "Taxi Driver," plays Monroe Stahr, the studio chief based on Irving Thalberg, the wunderkind from Brooklyn who ran biggest dream factory (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) in the 1920s and early '30s. Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay from F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel. Elia Kazan, director, and Sam Spiegel, producer, the. men responsible for "On The Waterfront," brought the movie to the screen.

"NETWORK." Paddy Chayefsky's original screen play, directed by Sidney LumjP Day Afternoon," is, like Chayefsky's "Hospital," described as a caustic look at an American institution and the people who run it. Advance word calls it powerful drama. William Holden and Faye Dunaway play executives and Peter Finch is a TV news anchorman who's losing his grip on his job and his mind. "BOUND FOR GLORY." Hal Ashby, who directed "Shampoo," "The Last Detail" and "Harold and Maude," is generating a lot of voltage on the movie-insiders' rumor mill with his biography of folksinger Woodie Guthrie. From stills in the trade magazines, the movie should have 1930s Depression realism.

David Carradine (TV's Kung Fu wanderer) is said to give the performance of his career. We'll see. "MARATHON MAN." Laurence Olivier plays a fugitive Nazi war criminal, an aging but still effective killer, stalking Dustin Hoffman, who knows more than he should for his own safety. Produced by former Paramount production boss Robert Evans, the film has a William Gold-Continued on Page N-7 dinner, 8:30 curtain Tuesdays through Sundays. Audubon Wildlife "Coastline California" by Albert J.

Wood, 8 p.m.-Wednesday, Glendale Community Collge. Dance Program ASU dance faculty members, 7:30 p.m. Wednesr day, Dance Studio, ASU Physical Education Building. "The Glass Menagerie" presented by Southwest Ensemble Theater at Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Wednesday through Saturday, 8 p.m., "HMS Pinafore" Produced by ASU Lyric Opera Theater 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday and next Sunday, also Oct.

6, 8, 9, Music Theater. Los Angeles Philharmonic Players Pinchas Zuckerman conductor and violin soloist, 8 p.m. Friday, Gammage. Ian Matthews with Michael Dinner 8 p.m. Friday, Celebrity Theater.

The Manhattan Transfer with Martin Mull, 8 p.m. Saturday, Symphony Hall. linauy eb. 26 when Eduardo Mata conducts "Don Juan," Pictures at an Exhibition and concertmaster Max Wexler is soloist in the Sibelius Concerto. Saturday's Prescott Pops at 7:30 p.m.

will be preceded by a 2 p.m. matinee in Cottonwood at Mingus High School with ASU pianist James Ruccolo. yt, w-t? a'P" Inside today SPOTLIGHT Johnny Carson, who celebrates his 15th year Friday on "The Tonight Show," looks back on his career, end forward to his future. Page 7 Clnemafare-N-2 An NewtN3 Records N-4 Music Notes N-S Books N-6 TV News and logtN-8-9 i Tti WW -ft i ICE FOLLIES opens its annual stand Tuesday at the Coliseum featuring funny men Little Llto (left) and the ageless Werner Groebli, Mr. Frick.

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